#SPN Novels

[teamfreewill2pointo]

Losing it at this old man dragging Sam and Dean in one of the official novels.

#supernatural #spn #spnfamily #spn family #sam winchester #dean winchester #bone key #spn novels

[twobluecows]

Dean “That’s a big hole” Winchester 🤨

Recently started reading the SPN novel series and I needed to draw this interaction from Witches Canyon this scene also the FIRST IN THE BOOK with Sam and Dean god what a way to start.

(hey check out my reviews of the novels: my first one here and the second one here)

#spn #supernatural #spn fanart #dean Winchester #sam Winchester #spn novels #twobluecows art

[soulonoscopys]

lmao what kind of agreement. feels like dean’s used to doing it since sam was a toddler, and sam had to set his foot down as he grew older

#dean would definitely do too much and make sam comfortable #but he’d be super annoyed if sam tried to do it to him #soulonoscopy reads #spn #sam winchester #dean winchester #spn novels

[lovetransaction]

i see u posting excerpts from the spn blogs and they look interesting omg are they worth the read?? Which ones have u liked? Sorry if youve answered this before lol!

I'll be honest, I read the SPN novels in an extremely scattershot fashion because I'm mostly skimming for stuff about the boys or about John or Mary that I like XDD and I pay no attention to what's happening plot-wise BUT!!

@sheepsquatches has a wonderful gdoc here about what books are good and worth reading, so that might be helpful in deciding which ones to check out 😌

#spn novels

[corrupttouch]

got jumpscared at the used book store today so of course I had to buy it

#I remember years ago I argued with someone about angel vessels #and they were correct and the plot summary of this book is what proved me wrong #now I finally get to subject myself to this and I am LIVING #so far it’s about as good as some of the mid tier fic I’ve read so like. I’m not suffering #spn #spn novels

[fandom-hoarder]

Sam and Dean's fonts in the Bestiary give me the image of Sam setting up a MOL typewriter and working from notes. Dean getting woken up by his typing, pulling the paper out and adding his bit by hand.

#spn references #spn novels #mol bestiary #sam n dean

[dyed-red]

that reminds me - at some point i actually kind of want to read the supernatural novels

but there is apparently at least 17 of them????

i know some of you have read them and i know “Coyote’s Kiss” and “One Year Gone” might be worth reading based on posts I've seen floating around, but?

what about any of the others?

also how do i get a career in writing official tie-in novels, like some of authors have written for supernatural and for star wars and other things??? don't get me wrong i love keeping fanfiction entirely free, anti-capitalist, and separate from canon, and i do NOT want to be a full-time writer or make that my life. but like, as a side gig?? that’s the dream???

#spn novels

[bloodybellycomb]

In a capitalist dystopia, your company gets to determine your sexuality, but one brave man will rebel against this system. In a world full of bisexuals, one courageous man decides to take a bold stand and come out as straight. Read this popular ya novel that is taking tiktok by storm now.

#misha collins #supernatural #spn #this drama feels like a summary to a generic ya novel #to me #birdy chirps

[deancasforcutie]

leave me alone to die

#doing normal then random AMV clips will again render me a consumptive Victorian corrupting her mind with impure novels and Slain by Feels #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #supernatural #spn #spnedit #12.09 #mine

[dirigibleplumbing]

why “the Winchesters” feels like fanfiction

I don’t mean this in a negative way but it feels like fic and here’s why:

Mary, John, Carlos, Lata, and Ada (and others to an extent) are 100% found family and an actual ensemble. in Supernatural, family didn’t end in blood but the brothers were the Main Characters and they’d known Bobby since before the start of the show. in the Winchesters, everyone who is working together is doing it because they choose to, and while everyone but John has history together, they fall into a TV Show Ensemble Cast immediately and John’s newness persists only for exposition purposes

because they’re all choosing to work together, they’re all nice to each other, give each other the benefit of the doubt, and generally assume everyone has the same goals and wants to be there and is doing the work

even though it’s the 70s and they don’t have cell phones, they use CB radios, pay phones, and walkies to constantly keep each other updated. the capacity to communicate is almost never an impediment. even when Carlos is trapped in a shadow dimension and Lata is in the house, they can hear each other yelling! 

the main group doesn’t hide info from each other. sure, John and Mary briefly attempt to hide their relationship, and Lata has a Deep Dark Secret she hasn’t told anyone before she put on the bracelet. but when it comes to hunting, they are all info all the time. Ada even shares the risk to her soul! can you imagine someone volunteering that on SPN?! even John’s mom knows about the Akreda and doesn’t for a moment think it’s at all possible John is a murderer! I guess this one is more fanon-vibe than fic, lots of fics are based on people withholding crucial info, but the “SPN but with healthier communication” thing is such a fandom concept

Dean hates that he died 

someone actually puts in a Led Zeppelin tape and it plays Led Zeppelin

the Impala is a CARDIS

John Winchester decides to get therapy

JOHN WINCHESTER DECIDES TO GET THERAPY

#the winchesters #spnwin #the winchesters spoilers #spoilers #spnwin spoilers #supernatural #spn #they could've so easily (and lazily) used the 'oh they don't have cell phones' thing as an excuse for all kinds of bs #but the only times people are unreachable is when they'd be unreachable in a contemporary setting too! #also I know there are plenty of times people shared similar kinds of info on SPN to some extent #like yes s5 Dean knew the plan was for Sam to say Yes etc #but it never felt as voluntarily offered as it doesn on the winchesters #PS: I did not pay close attention to the Winchesters to be honest #I was cleaning while I watched it and I read half a romance novel while watching it

[seasononesam]

#i never said anything bad about spn tie in novels spn tie in novels are my friend #personal

[twobluecows]

Supernatural “Heart of the Dragon” by Keith R.A. DeCandido

This is the second installment of my reviews of the Supernatural novel series, here is the first.

"Heart of the Dragon" is the fourth book in the series, and takes place shortly after season fives episode Changing Channels. (there is a historians note in the beginning of the book.)

Rating: 3/5 (getting better!)

This story follows another ghost murder cycle, this time it is every 20 years and takes place in Chinatown, San Francisco. We follow Sam and Dean in 2009, John in 1989, and Samuel, Deanna, and Mary Campbell in 1969 as everyone tries to get rid of the ghost and demon on the same hunt.

First things first, this book has some insanely racist shit through (mainly) the first third of the book, and it nearly pushed me to DNF when I first began. The author consistently uses dated slurs for Chinese and Japanese Americans throughout making the story overall plain awful and difficult to read. This book is well written and interesting in other respects, and it is great in regards to it being a story about Supernatural. If you’re going to read it be careful and know what you’re getting into. That all being said, it is impossible to ignore the racist bullshit so I’m docking two points.

Other than that, this story caught me off guard with how well it handled the Campbells and John's perspectives. In the main SPN canon we don't know much about Deanna, other than she was just kind of there, in this story she is fleshed out more and is really a badass. Samuel and John are paralleled a lot between their two perspectives, both being generally bad fathers who raised their children in constant danger. In the 1989 sections we also get a glimpse of Bobby caring for a young Dean and Sam, which made me very teary-eyed. Oh, and bonus points for Cas appearances, while they were few and far between I enjoyed them.

Overall this story was a great dive into characters we didn't see much of in the main series, and an expansion of what we already knew about John's A+ parenting. If you decide to read this book precede with caution, as mentioned before it comes with a heaping of racist BS in the beginning.

Here are some quotes from the story that I want to highlight:

2 books done. . . 15 more to go. . . (Btw I’m on spring break so I have been doing nothing but reading and petting my dog, so on to the next one!)

Oh, and Shortie tried to eat this one too.

#arin's supernatural novel reviews #supernatural #book review #spn #sam winchester #dean winchester #bobby singer #john winchester #spn novels

[soulonoscopys]

- John Winchester’s Journal

- Supernatural: Mythmaker by Tim Waggoner

god, the way Sam believes that Dean was John’s favourite. that Dean was perfect and so John loved him more, and Dean has tried everything so that he would be John’s perfect child but he knows he isn’t and he knows dad’s favourite baby will always be Sammy. it will always be Sammy first and then Dean second. but Sam felt so outcasted in his own family that he thought his father favoured Dean, while Dean knows John favoured Sam. 

#the dysfunctional and immensely interesting dynamic of the winchester family #noscopy talks #supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #winchester childhood #john winchester #sam and john #01x08 bugs #spn novels #s1 #dean studies #family is hell #daddy’s blunt instrument

[poorlittleyaoyao]

Beefleaf isn't canon. Mxtx has said she doesn't like to write another gay ship different from the main (she struggled with svsss)

I have heard about this! The content I saw was just so insistent about Beefleaf that I wondered if maybe I was misremembering and the "no same-gender side couples" thing applied to MDZS only. (I have gotten similar vibes from Moshang and from whatever Yue QIngyuan and Shen Jiu's ship name is, but I've now obtained Vol. 1 of SVSSS and plan to read it, so if those two aren't actually canon, don't tell me! It can be a surprise!)

The "no side couples"--or, in MDZS's case, "no queer characters AT ALL besides the protag, his love interest, and the disgraced goth weirdo who annihilates himself to resurrect the protag"--thing confuses me, because... I guess I don't get the point of it? I totally understand not having the bandwidth to develop more than one couple. The challenge of adequately building up other relationships fully independent of your main couple without detracting from the exploits of your protagonist and his love interest could be daunting, as would expanding the story's focus and juggling multiple equally-prominent lead characters for an effective ensemble piece. But here it seems like people picked up a vibe between the characters from what was already there in the text and then MXTX was like, "oh, no, they're not a couple! there's just the one couple!" and THAT I don't get. If she's disinterested in writing women, but has a cast of attractive men who are all obsessed with each other, why not toss a romance in there between some of the guys? Again, you can keep it entirely as-is and just toss a kiss in there or confirm in interviews that yes, they were in love, and you're so happy readers picked up on that even though you didn't get to tell their full story on the page.

I am extrapolating based on the Xiyao situation specifically, so maybe this doesn't apply to her other works! But it is a choice that confuses me. A couple doesn't have to be that developed; Xuanli certainly aren't, but their existence is a major plot point. I should think that the presence of other m/m couples would bolster the main couple, if anything, because it sets a precedent for them existing in their world. There are situations where adding an expressly romantic element would change something fundamental about the relationship, but there are just as many where the addition of a romantic element changes nothing or makes it make more sense (case in point: Xue Yang's freakout after killing Xiao Xingchen).

Like I said, I get not wanting to devote energy to it, and I also get that sometimes a work or performance is received by the audience in ways the artist didn't intend (this is the Destiel website, after all), but to make it a conscious choice to have One M/M Couple Only? Based on what I currently know, this perplexes me.

#there are plenty of works that have a bajillion guys and only like two women but do NOT intend anything romantic between the guys #but these are things like shounen anime (or fuckin SPN lol) that are written for straight male audiences and don't prioritize romance #whereas these here are epic romances about two gay men written for predominantly female audiences #it's not like your audience is going to be like 'a romance between two DIFFERENT men in my m/m love story? outrage!' right? #anyway the 'nobody likes men except the protags' is so funny in MDZS because of Xuexiao specifically #notable danmei author MXTX I find it very unlikely that the plot you repurposed from an earlier novel project was Just Guys Being Dudes!! #unrebloggable bc this fandom gets WEIRD when ppl say anything that could even be construed as critical of craft

[rarefandomsowo]

today is a terrible day.

#fnaf #michael afton #the mimic #supernatural #spn meme #destiel meme #mimic #fnaf ruin #fnaf novel #fnaf novels #unreality

[fandom-hoarder]

This post about Supernatural: The Unholy Cause (under cut) and the one a couple below this with jealous sammy, always remind me of (Everything I Do) I Do it For You even though it's more of a stalker situation lol

#spn novels #wincest fic recs #my rec list #wincest fanfiction #s6 wincest #spn s6 #resouled!sam